Barbara Landau is Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and Chair of the Cognitive Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in language learning, spatial representation, and the relationships between these foundational systems of human knowledge. She is also an authority on language development in individuals with Williams Syndrome. She received a B.A. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, an Ed.M. in educational psychology from Rutgers University in 1977, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. She has worked at Columbia University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Delaware before accepting her current position at Johns Hopkins University.
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“Children are extraordinarily precious members of society; they are exquisitely alert, sensitive, and conscious of their surroundings; and they are extraordinarily vulnerable to maltreatment or emotional abuse by adults who refuse to give them the profound respect and affection to which they are unconditionally entitled.”
—Wisdom of the Elders, quoted in Kids Are Worth It, by Barbara Coloroso, ch. 1 (1994)